Recently, I received a question regarding the HL7 ADT message and thought that it, along with the answer, warranted a larger audience.
Question: Is there a national standard to what the baseline structure of an ADT (A28, A31) message should include? Are there national ...

Two new IHE Technical Framework supplements and a handbook are still out for public comment. The ITI Technical Committee encourages and welcomes your input to these important health IT standards. The documents are available at http://ihe.net/Technical_Frameworks/. Comments can be ...

One of the largest HL7 policy shifts I’ve seen in 20 years within the HL7 community is the decision to release much of the HL7 intellectual property (IP) at no cost.
During the past year I’ve been a member of the HL7 Board Membership Taskforce studying how to rework membership ...

A new term spreading (almost like fire) through the healthcare interoperability world is HL7 FHIR, pronounced as “fire.” Here are the Top 5 things I think you should know about this upcoming standard many hope will help solve many current issues in interoperability:
FHIR ...

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®) made a significant announcement on Sept. 4, 2012. It revealed a “decision to make much of its intellectual property (IP), including standards, freely available under licensing terms.”
There are more details to come as to how this will ...

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Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]